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Flint was an immortalHuman from Earth who lived under several aliases over a span of 6,000 years. During his lifetime, Flint watched Humanity evolve from savagery and barbarism, and he both knew, and indeed was, some of the greatest minds in Earth history.

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Flint's cause of immortality was a form of instant tissue regeneration which was coupled with a form of perfect biological renewal. A side effect of this condition was sheer strength twice that of normal Humans.

Flint himself appeared as a medium build Caucasian Human with white hair, although over his enormous lifetime Flint's appearance may very well have changed. At various points in history, Flint had taken up several aliases, some of whom looked nothing alike.

Flint was born as Akharin in 3834 BC in Mesopotamia, where he grew up to become "a soldier, a bully, and a fool." Sometime shortly before the year 3800 BC, Flint was deployed in an ancient battle and fell in combat after receiving a serious wound to his heart. After Flint did not die, he realized his immortal nature and began living a portion of a life, achieving various accomplishments and sometimes marrying (Flint later stated that he had married over a hundred times), then discarding one identity for another before his true nature could be suspected.

Between 3000 and 2000 BC, Flint lived primarily in the Middle East, in particular the lands associated with the Bible. He was at one point the basis for the Biblical character of Methuselah. Sometime around 1400 to 1200 BC, Flint (who was by then well over two thousand years old) also knew the historical figure Moses.

A thousand years later, circa 970 BC, the nearly three thousand-year-old Flint adopted his first (known) alias which became a major figure in world history – that of the JewishKingSolomon. Some four hundred years after that, Flint had moved himself to the region of ancient Greece, where at one point he knew the philosopher Socrates. Two hundred years later, in 356 BC, Flint again became a major historical figure when he assumed the alias of Alexander the Great. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

By the first century AD, Flint was approaching 4,000 years of age and had lived through nearly the entirety of recorded history (up to that point). By this time, he had lived as at least two world leaders (Solomon and Alexander) and had seen death on a scale beyond imagination. In his own words two thousand years later, Flint "had seen a hundred billion fall, and had tossed enemies into [death's] grasp." In his later years, these early experiences with Humankind caused Flint see Earth as a savage and barbaric place regardless of the era.

Around 30 AD, Flint was again living in the Middle East and at some point became associated with the religious figure Jesus. Again, Flint became the basis for a Biblical character when he was known by the name Lazarus.

It is implied that Flint's immortal nature was the basis for the legend of Lazarus rising from the dead.

"Constantinople; summer, 1334. It marched through the streets, the sewers. It left the city by oxcart, by sea, to kill half of Europe. The rats, rustling, and squealing in the night as they too died. The rats..."

At the dawn of the so called "Age of the Renaissance," Flint had seemingly abandoned his early ambitions of world leadership and military conquest, and he instead began to focus on improving the Human condition through the study of art and science. Sometime after 1450, he assumed the identity of an Italian under the alias Leonardo da Vinci. This is perhaps one of the most famous identities Flint ever held, since while he lived as da Vinci, Flint created works of art which would be well known centuries later. The painting "Mona Lisa," correctly titled La Gioconda, is one such work; it eventually found its way into the hands of the criminal Kivas Fajo before being retrieved by Federation authorities thanks to the efforts of the android officer Data. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah"; TNG: "The Most Toys")

Leonardo da Vinci "died" in AD 1519, after which Flint moved on to assume different unknown identities. He apparently remained in Italy since, circa AD 1600, he knew the scientist Galileo Galilei. Flint eventually left this life as well, moving into the AD 1700s under several other "names we do not know." (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

At the start of the 19th Century, Flint was apparently still residing in Europe and, as early as 1833, he had adopted another alias which became famous as the musical composer Johannes Brahms. As Brahms, Flint resided mainly in Austria and wrote several musical pieces which were still popular centuries later. Most of Flint's time in the 19th century was spent living as Brahms, with Johannes Brahms "dying" in 1897. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

Flint's activities in the 21st and 22nd centuries are largely unknown, as he did not speak of who he was or what he was doing during this period when encountered by Starfleet officers a hundred years later.

Flint speaks of a further alias, "Abramson," as one of his more famous identities. Nothing else is said about who this person was, but it is possible that Abramson was an alias from the 21st or 22nd century.

In 2239, living as the interstellar financier Brack, Flint bought the planetHolberg 917G in the Omega system. It was uninhabited, and he took great measures to keep up that appearance. Flint built a magnificent home on the planet, where he lived a reclusive life. While living on Holberg 917G Flint engineered a succession of female androids in the quest for an undying love partner. Each bore the name Rayna, and the final, perfect manifestation – Rayna 17 – was not allowed to know of her failed predecessors.

Hoping to jump-start Rayna 17's emotions, Flint allowed her to interact with the visitors. The android fell in love with CaptainJames T. Kirk, but could not transfer this emotion back to her disappointed creator. Forced to choose between her suitors and unable to hurt either, she ceased to function, much to Flint's horror.

Spock deduced from musical pieces by Brahms (written in modern ink) and da Vinci paintings, all authentic on contemporary canvas, that Flint must be very long-lived. After this was revealed, however, Doctor Leonard McCoy later discovered that Akharin/Flint, finally, was dying, since his immortality had been sustained by Earth's complex fields, and had been sacrificed in the relocation to Holberg 917G. Flint stated that he would devote the time before his imminent natural death to the improvement of the Human condition.

Flint would also have claimed to have been Pablo Picasso and Ludwig van Beethoven. The Picasso reference was removed for fear that the artist himself (still alive at that time) might legally challenge the producers for claiming to have anything to do with forged pictures. Beethoven was changed to Johannes Brahms because Beethoven had never written any waltzes, when one have serves as accompaniment for Kirk and Rayna's dance. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three)

Reginald Pollack (1924-2001), was, at the time of the episode's production was still alive. Whether Flint lived as Pollack, or merely owned one of his paintings, is not made clear.

The Man from Earth, a film also written by Bixby, concerns a similar main character, who, following his birth during the Paleolithic era, lives to the present day and adopts aliases, including that of Jesus, as Flint would have originally done.

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Concerning Flight", Janeway comments that Kirk claimed to have met Leonardo da Vinci. This would implying either that Kirk broke his promise to Flint not to reveal his identity or that he revealed it following Flint's death.

According to Entertainment Weekly, an episode of the proposed fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise was "on the drawing board" to reportedly have featured Flint, under a previous alias, coming into contact with the crew of Enterprise. No script was written, but initial storyboard ideas suggested a confirmation of Flint's alias of Abramson as a famous Earth scientist who would possibly have known either Henry Archer and/or Zefram Cochrane. At the conclusion of the episode, Phlox would have discovered Flint's unique biological characteristics, setting up the latter's negative views on discussing his background with anyone and explaining the "disaster of intervention" reference in the Original Series episode.

Flint has claimed to fake his death when moving from one identity to the other. While the final resting place of Alexander is the subject of much debate and myth, several historical figures that he has claimed to be (notably da Vinci and Brahms) have final resting places that are known, which introduces questions as to whose body lies in these places.

In Star Trek - Legion of Super-Heroes, the 2012comic book crossover from IDW Publishing, Flint is revealed to be an alternate continuum counterpart to immortal DC Comics villain Vandal Savage. In the story, Flint/Savage, then known as "Vandar the Stone," imprisons Q, who had traveled back in time to the dawn of man, and used Q's power and knowledge to alter history and become a tyrannical dictator. In the 23rd Century, he attempts to interrogate Kirk and various Legionnaires who have arrived in his timeline- the Legionnaires were already time-travelling and Kirk and some of the senior staff were transporting down to Earth apparently at the moment Vandar's actions changed history- to learn about their history so that he can "avoid their mistakes". Despite being tortured by Vandar, Kirk dismisses his empire as nothing but the grand ambitions of a stupid caveman who never learned to look to the future and find a way of living aside from conquest, proclaiming that Vandar fundamentally cannot understand the future. Eventually, having traveled back in time themselves, Spock and Brainiac 5 are able to free Q ("Vandar Stone" trapped Q by preventing anyone else now living from releasing him, only for Spock to bypass that instruction as he had not been born yet), thereby undoing the damage to the timeline. The story concludes with Q – in a guise that resembles Trelane – visiting Flint in the 23rd century, with Flint noting that he abandoned conquest after witnessing so much death in Mesopotamia, prompting Q to reflect that there may be another Flint out there in the multiverse who did not abandon violence.